The Rogers Collection of Dockyard Models at the U.S. Naval Academy Volume I: First and Second Rates by Grant Walker coming soon This book covers building interior

This book covers building interior details including a remarkable detailed magazine

This allows for a smaller work space than 1:48 scale and a savings on wood for the modeler

the model could also be built using plank on bulkhead

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The Rogers Collection of Dockyard Models at the U.S. Naval Academy Volume I: First and Second Rates by Grant Walker coming soon This book covers building interiorSeaWatchBooks is honored to present Volume I of a series on the study of the Rogers collection of ship models at the U. S. Naval Academy. The author, Grant Walker, has spent over a decade studying and writing about one of the finest collections of period ship models in the world. Volume one covers the First and Second Rates in the collection. Grant presents an in depth examination of each model in these classes. Future volumes will cover the rest of